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[ 40 ] found a slight trend of increasing and decreasing cherry fruit firmness after cold storage, respectively; however, the storage conditions and methodologies used in the preceding studies differed from those used here.

However, a slight trend towards increased values was observed in the treated groups (Fig. 1 ).

Although TG levels did not show statistical differences, there was a slight trend of decrease ( Figure 5E ).

They also noted that in sixth-year students there was a slight trend for those with higher debt to exclude general practice from their top three preferences but not to a statistically significant level.

The findings showed a slight trend toward faster improvement in skin symptoms, particularly rashes, among individuals receiving early RTX, although the effect did not reach statistical significance.

The order of selections within each trial provides us with information on which values were being prioritised; there was a slight trend towards selection of values further from the mean towards the latter half of the trial, seen in Fig. 3 A.

However, a slight trend towards association of homozygosity for the DECTIN-1 G allele with IBD was observed (G allele frequency of 1.0% in healthy controls vs. 0.5–0.6% in CD and UC, Table 1 ).

However, the data showed a slight trend towards positive effects of active tDCS in that the cessation rate was slightly higher than in the sham group, at least up to and including the fifth session, however this trend was not statistically significant.

We found similar outcomes for high and low tumour-infiltrating T-lymphocytes groups in terms of 5-year overall survival ( p = 0.46) ( Figure 1 ), 5-year disease-specific survival ( p = 0.88) ( Figure 2 ) and 5-year disease-free survival ( p = 0.73) ( Figure 3 ), although there was a slight trend towards improved survival in the high tumour-infiltrating T-lymphocytes group.

We even noticed a slight trend toward improved engraftment in this later case.

Furthermore, as the PEGDA molecular weight increases, a slight trend of higher porosity is observed.

The conditional weighted residual errors (CWRES) were randomly distributed around zero without obvious trends over population predictions, but with a slight trend over time between 6 and 8 h after the last drug intake.

However, additional prompting resulted in a slight trend toward less accuracy, with 2 responses below the 2-3 (accurate to somewhat accurate) range.

Quality of life scores On the MLWHF, there was no significant difference between the groups at any time point, although there was a slight trend towards the intervention group having slightly less deterioration over the six months in overall quality of life than the UC control group (mean difference +6.7 ± 16.2 vs +9.5 ± 10.8; p = 0.6).

Contrary to our expectations, the 72 h-exposure of the cells to glucotoxicity does not significantly increase the levels of p16 INK4a immunostaining irrespective of the cellular compartment, although a slight trend towards increase was found at 10 and 33 mM glucose compared to 5 mM glucose (Fig. 2 a−c).

Interestingly, on meta-analysis of non-selective NSAIDs, there was only a slight trend for IBD relapse, which was not statistically significant (relative risk 1.29, 95% confidence interval 0.92–1.80).

On the basis of our cutoff values, although a slight trend of increased number of patients was noted in line with the extent of nodal metastasis, it did not reach significance among N1, N2, and N3 (data not shown).

36.6%), with a slight trend favoring the lobectomy group ( 16 ).

Although not statistically significant, RAG at the lowest dose (50 mg/kg/day) showed a slight trend toward higher tumor inhibition than the highest dose (100 mg/kg/day).

10 Concerns regarding secondary malignancies, such as acute myeloid leukemia and brain tumors, have been reported only in pediatric patients, with a slight trend favoring the control group. 10 Furthermore, there is a consideration that dexrazoxane may exacerbate myelosuppression caused by chemotherapeutic agents, as evidenced by a lower nadir in white blood cell count in the dexrazoxane group, although no significant differences were observed in the incidence rates of thrombocytopenia, neutropenia, and anemia. 10 Overall, the totality of available evidence robustly supports the use of dexrazoxane in adult patients at high risk for developing AIC.

Static magnetic stimulation, where the magnet is placed adjacent to the microtissue for the duration of the experiment, shows a slight trend to increase vascular formation in most samples that previously were unable to support vessel formation (Fig. 5b ).

While there is a slight trend toward increased expression of the BAT-specific genes Ucp1 and Dio2 in gWAT and iWAT, this trend does not reach statistical significance and is not apparent for Pgc1a .

Elytral color patterns had an effect on neither prevalence nor intensity of infection by Laboulbeniales in our dataset, although we found a slight trend to higher intensity of parasitism in more melanic males.

The mean age of the cohort was 58.6 yrs (SD ±18) and there was a slight trend toward a younger population near the end of the study period (Table 1 ).

When subtracting oxy‐Hb and deoxy‐Hb time courses during escalating breathing maneuvers without MNS from corresponding time courses with MNS, the functional hyperoxygenation response is diminished to a slight trend (BH) or vanishes altogether (V15 and V35).